5 questions with Chris Bergeron, driver of Monster Truck Brutus

12:52 AM,
Feb. 28, 2013

Written by

Mary Lendzion, Free Press staff writer

Even before he turned 10, Chris Bergeron would pass wrenches and other tools to his dad, who worked on cars at their Clinton Township home.

It wasn't long before he knew how to pull and install engines on his own, and that came in handy in high school, when he bought a '69 Corvette and gave its 350-cubic-inch engine new rings and bearings, and then again when he bought a '79 Chevy pickup truck and built a 454-cubic-inch engine for it.

He went on to modify that truck's suspension so that it would easily clear the 44-inch-tall tires he had for it, and it was his newfound passion for trucks -- big ones -- that ...